“While Harvey was an excellent botanist, he was so much more than that.
He was a family man, a community volunteer, and an elected official. We
were staples in Saturna’s Theatre on the Rock in its heyday. We also had
season’s tickets to the ballet and the opera in Victoria for many years.
Harvey loved opera!
I have fond memories of going to Monroe’s Book Store with Harvey—they
always let us bring the Corgis in and gave them treats. And Harvey and I
always left with a pile of new books. All kinds of books—but our
collection of “natural history” books was by far the largest. Birds,
bugs, astronomy, plants, wildflowers, fossils, butterflies, bats, even
slugs (Harvey’s last interest). If it was outside, we were interested!
We always traveled with Roadside Geology books. Our souvenirs were
rocks, fossils, shells, seeds, feathers.
And that man could remember everything he read! He could also master
anything he chose to, teaching himself to play a variety of musical
instruments, fixing all kinds of mechanical things, becoming an internet
technician, and a plumber to pay the bills—which he always said he
learned at the Low Temperature Lab for the Atomic Energy Commission
while he was an undergrad at Berkeley.
Harvey was a brilliant, complex man, and is deeply missed.” — Pam
Janszen